girlingn.1
/ˈɡəːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡərlɪŋ/ The action or practice (by a man) of consorting with women or of seeking out female company. Frequently in to go girling (earliest in to go a-girling).
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1787 Sessions Papers 10 Jan. 325/2 The maid said two men were missing, and the others said, G——d d——n them, they are gone a girling,..but we will pay for them.
1893 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang III. 149 Girling.To go girling,..to quest for women, to go on the loose.
1900 C. K. Field & W. Irwin Stanford Stories 157 The autumn rains came..and still Pellams went girling.
1901 F. Norris Octopus ii. iv. 401 He's gone a-girling at last, old Buck!
1931 L. Steffens Autobiogr. I. i. i. 8 Cowboys..used to come..into town to mix with the teamsters, miners, and steamboat men in the drinking, gambling, girling, fighting, of those days.
1940 Daily Times-News (Burlington, N. Carolina) 13 June 4/3 One man, thinking he was doomed anyway, went girling and liquoring around Paris.
1975 J. Gould Maine Lingo 109 Jimmie's out girlin' tonight.
2004 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 June r9 We did everything together except go girling together. I don't think he was interested in ladies—he was too busy working all the time.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
girlingn.2
/ˈɡəːlɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈɡərlɪŋ/ English regional (western). Now rare.
A young salmon.
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > salmo salar (salmon) > young
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1861 Act 24 & 25 Victoria c. 109 §4 All migratory fish of the genus salmon, whether known by the names hereinafter mentioned, that is to say..kelt, laurel, girling, grilse..or by any other local name.
1880–4 F. Day Fishes Great Brit. & Ireland II. 68 The salmon..on its second return from the sea is often termed a ‘gerling’ in the Severn.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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